PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ATel #9478; D. Bersier, L. Short (Liverpool JMU), E. Kankare (QUB), A. De Cia (ESO), K. Maguire (QUB), C. Inserra (QUB), S. J. Smartt (QUB), K. W. Smith (QUB), M. Sullivan (Southampton), S. Valenti (UC Davis), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. Young (QUB), I. Manulis (Weizmann), L. Wyrzykowski (Warsaw Observatory, Poland), J. Tonry, B. Stalder, L. Denneau., A. Heinze, A. Sherstyuk (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI)
on 9 Sep 2016; 15:13 UT
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Credential Certification: Erkki Kankare (e.kankare@qub.ac.uk)

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PESSTO, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40 http://www.pessto.org ), reports the following supernova classifications. Targets were supplied by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae ASAS-SN (see Shappee et al. 2014, ApJ, 788, 48 and http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml ), the ATLAS survey, see Tonry et al. (2011, PASP, 123, 58) and Tonry et al. (ATel #8680), and the OGLE-IV Real-time Transient Search (Wyrzykowski et al., 2014 arxiv:1409.1095; http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ ). We acknowledge ESA Gaia, DPAC and the Photometric Science Alerts Team (http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts). All observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla on 2016 09 08, using EFOSC2 and Grism 13 (3985-9315A, 18A resolution) or Grism 11 (3360-7460, 14A resolution). Classifications were done with SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024). Classification spectra and additional details can be obtained from http://www.pessto.org (via WISeREP) and the IAU Transient Name Server.

 
Survey Name | IAU Name  | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. Date | Source | Disc Mag |  z    | Type    | Phase | Notes 
ASASSN-16kd |           | 17 22 51   | -31 58 36.3 |  20160907  | ASASSN |   11.4   | 0.00  | Nova    |   -   | (1) 
ATLAS16crg  | SN2016fmb | 21 35 25   | +21 19 12.9 |  20160902  | ATLAS  |   18.4   | 0.07  | Ia      |  -5d  | (2) 
Gaia16ber   | AT2016fsn | 01 58 44   | +24 01 12.9 |  20160901  | Gaia   |   14.6   | -     | -       |   -   | (3) 
OGLE16cza   |           | 01 13 23   | -71 15 35.8 |  20160908  | OGLE   |   17.5   | 0.00  | Stellar |   -   |  
ASASSN-16jw | SN2016fts | 02 06 51   | +14 43 21.2 |  20160905  | ASASSN |   17.0   | 0.03  | Ia      |  -2d  | (4) 

(1) Red continuum with Halpha emission at z=0.
(2) Best fit with normal type Ia SN eg. SN2005eu at -5d.
(3) Nothing visible on acquisition image.
(4) Best fit with normal type Ia SN eg. SN2002fk at -2d.